Jeff is an international speaker and visual marketing consultant. He hosts the Social Media News Live show and podcast and is also the editor for Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People Podcast. He is also "Head Beard" at Manly Pinterest Tips.
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Howdy Reader! There is a job in your industry that nobody respectable will take. It pays too little, or it is too small, or it is just a little embarrassing. Billy Thorpe built a business not worrying about any of that... When he started, the established creators in his space were turning down fifty-dollar offers, some of them rudely. Billy took every one. He has now done about four thousand five hundred of them, he holds over fifteen hundred brand contacts, and he runs the whole thing by himself from Puerto Rico in roughly twenty-five hours a week. No team. No pitch deck. Debt-free. He will tell you he is not a guru, and he means it. His line is that he was just the guy dumb enough to keep doing the thing. He actually is a genius, and this Friday, his third time on with us, we're going after the instinct underneath all of it: → How to spot the opportunity everyone else thinks is beneath them Come watch live and put your questions in the chat. Join us TODAY, August 7 at 10 AM Central See ya there! P.S. Billy shoots multi-camera product videos in about two minutes with a foot pedal and a Stream Deck. Ecamm is what makes that possible, and it is the same tool we use to produce Creator News Live every single week: sharp HD guests, screen share, comments on screen, without the tech headaches. Get 15% off Ecamm with code JEFF15. P.P.S. Every week we pull the best of the episode onto one page: the framework, the quotes, the tools that got mentioned, and exactly what to do next. It's called the Cheat Sheet Club, it's free, and it lands in your inbox after the show. Yes, send me the weekly cheat sheet. |
Jeff Sieh
Jeff is an international speaker and visual marketing consultant. He hosts the Social Media News Live show and podcast and is also the editor for Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People Podcast. He is also "Head Beard" at Manly Pinterest Tips.
Howdy Reader! There is a folder on your hard drive with a book in it. Or a course, or the guide you keep meaning to build. It has been in there a while, and you know exactly which folder I mean. This Friday we're sitting down with Lisa DiNoto Glassner of The Castle Run, and her first book comes out the week after. She left a Big Law career, built a business around what she actually loves, and then finished the book. Seventeen chapters, about two hundred and fifty pages, published under her...
Howdy Reader! Time for something I don't bring up much. I've been playing the five-string banjo since before junior high. I know what you're thinking. How did a banjo kid keep the girls away all through junior high and high school? The guitar guys had nothing on me. Nothing! Because guitar says “sensitive singer-songwriter.” A banjo says “I enjoy being stuffed in a locker with my underwear pulled up around my ears.” You can't see security keeping all the girls from rushing the stage Here's...
Howdy Reader! This week on Creator News Live, I sat down with Mike Potter, the founder of Macstock Conference and Expo and the host of For Mac Eyes Only, one of the longest running independent Apple podcasts around. The idea that stuck with me: anyone can build an audience, but a community is a different thing. An audience claps when you post. A community shows up, travels, and comes back year after year. Mike spent 10 years building the second kind, and he handed us the playbook. Your cheat...